Articles | Volume 19, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-3569-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-3569-2026
Model description paper
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04 May 2026
Model description paper |  | 04 May 2026

The ocean model for E3SM global applications: Omega version 0.1.0 – a new high-performance computing code for exascale architectures

Mark R. Petersen, Xylar S. Asay-Davis, Alice M. Barthel, Carolyn Branecky Begeman, Siddhartha Bishnu, Steven R. Brus, Philip W. Jones, Hyun-Gyu Kang, Youngsung Kim, Azamat Mametjanov, Brian J. O'Neill, James R. Overfelt, Kieran K. Ringel, Katherine M. Smith, Sarat Sreepathi, Luke P. Van Roekel, and Maciej Waruszewski

Model code and software

E3SM-Project/Omega: Omega v0.1.0-alpha.1 Mark R. Petersen et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17418901

E3SM-Project/polaris: v0.7.0 Xylar Asay-Davis et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15470123

E3SM-Project/Omega Mark R. Petersen et al. https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20250723.1

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Short summary
Ocean models are used to predict currents, temperature, and salinity of the earth's oceans, much like weather forecasting. As supercomputer hardware changes with evolving technology, models must be updated, and sometimes rewritten. Here we document Omega, a new ocean model that was designed to run on the world's fastest supercomputers. Testing shows that Omega accurately solves the model equations, and runs efficiently on many different computer architectures, including exascale computers.
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